A FORMER mayor is to face court after being involved in a fatal road crash at Nether Alderley on her way to a charity outing.

Coun Shan Alexander, Stockport’s first Asian mayor in 2005, has been summonsed to appear in court on a single charge of causing death while driving without due care and attention.

She was told to attend Macclesfield magistrates court on October 21.

Coun Alexander, 65, was behind the wheel of her Mercedes driving to Redesmere and later Capesthorne Hall for an event organised by the Rotary Club of Stockport.

On the way she was involved in a crash with another vehicle on the A537 Chelford Road at Nether Alderley.

The purpose of the trip was to take a party of blind and partially-sighted people and their carers for a day out.

Coun Alexander, of Hawk Green, Stockport, was travelling from Stockport to Macclesfield when the accident happened at the junction of Birtles Lane and Chelford Road on May 10 this year. Coun Alexander’ car was in collision with a Peugeot.

Mallory Perry, 66, from Stockport, who was a back-seat passenger in Coun Alexander’s car - suffered fatal injuries in the crash.

Mrs Perry’s 65-year-old husband was the front-seat passenger.

He suffered head injuries and had to be cut free by fire crews.

Coun Alexander was also taken to hospital as was the driver of the Peugeot.

Coun Alexander, a leading Stockport Liberal Democrat, is the current executive member for finance.

She became mayor in 2005, the first Asian woman to hold the post in the north west. She represents Marple South ward.

Her late father, Victor Guruswamy, was the first Tamil mayor of Kandy, Sri Lanka, in 1946.